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Cornbury Park, Charlbury
Cornbury Park is a Cotswold country estate near Charlbury in the heart of Oxfordshire owned by The Lord Rotherwick.
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Goodwood Estate, West Sussex
About Goodwood Estate Goodwood Estate is a spectacular estate in the heart of West Sussex and home to the world famous Festival of Speed, Goodwood Revival and Qatar Goodwood Festival. Goodwood’s 12,000 acre estate is home to a 91 room hotel and a 18th century clubhouse that once housed the Duke of Richmond’s hunting hounds. The most recent addition to the estate is Hound Lodge, a luxurious 10-bedroom country retreat with its own butler and private chef. At the heart of the Estate sits Goodwood House, set in picturesque parkland…
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Cliveden House, Berkshire
Built in 1666 by the 2nd Duke of Buckingham, as a gift to his mistress, Cliveden House is a Grade I listed stately home set upon 376 acres of National Trust grounds.
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Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
About Ragley Hall Ragley Hall is a stately home, located south of Alcester, Warwickshire, eight miles west of Stratford-upon-Avon. It has been the ancestral seat of the Hertford family for over 300 years. Set in thousands of acres of its own estate overlooking unspoilt Warwickshire countryside, Ragley Hall includes 26 acres of mature formal gardens, hundreds of acres of stunning parkland, a thriving farm with a farmshop, as well as other countryside businesses. [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Image: Ragley Hall, Paks & Gardens
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Huffkins Cotswold Bakery & Tearooms, Witney
Visit Huffkins Bakery & Tearooms for artisan coffee & cake, an all day breakfast or a Classic Afternoon Tea.
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Bodleian Library – Old Library
Bodleian Library – Old Library Opened in 1602 at the heart of Oxford’s historic University, the Bodleian Library is one of the worlds oldest libraries and has been used as a working library belonging to the University of Oxford for over 400 years. It incorporated an earlier library built by the University in the 15th century to house books donated by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester. The Bodleian Library is the second largest library in Britain (second in size only to the British Library). It is spread across several buildings comprising…
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Exeter College Chapel
About Exeter College Chapel Oxford Exeter College is located at the heart of Oxford, adjoining the Bodleian Library. The College, the fourth oldest at the University, has occupied its current site on Turl Street since 1315, one year after it was founded. There has been a Chapel in the College since its foundation and it has fulfilled many different functions over the past seven centuries, as understandings of religion and faith has changed through the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Oxford Movement. Today the Chapel is, of course a place…
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Trinity College Gardens, Oxford
About Trinity College Gardens, Oxford Trinity College was founded as a training house for Catholic priests in the sixteenth century. The site of the college, now very much in the city centre, was originally chosen for its quiet, rural aspect. Trinity became a pillar of the Anglican establishment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and a centre of educational reform in the nineteenth. The past 100 years have seen great expansion in the numbers of fellows and students, and the college buildings and grounds have steadily changed to meet the…
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Wadham College Gardens, Oxford
About Wadham College Gardens Originally a series of orchards and market-gardens carved out from the property of the Augustinian priory, Wadham College Gardens have been significantly modified over the course of the last four hundred years. Gardens were first created under Warden Wilkins (1648-59) as a series of formal rectangles laid out around a (then fashionable) mound which was surmounted by a figure of Atlas. Wadham’s extensive gardens provide a wonderful environment for fellows and students as well as visitors. From the formal front quad, walk past the Chapel into…
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Merton College Chapel
About Merton College Chapel Oxford Merton college was founded in 1264 and is one of the oldest colleges in Oxford. Merton College Chapel has been a place of prayer and worship for over seven hundred years. Work on the church of St Mary and St John, now the Quire of Merton College Chapel, started in the late 1280s to replace the parish church of St John the Baptist which stood on the site now occupied by the north wing of Mob Quad. The Quire’s large size attests perhaps to thirteenth-century…
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Gatineau Artisan Patisserie & Bakery Oxford
Finest artisan produce in the French/ European patisserie and boulangerie tradition.
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GAIL’s Jericho
Fresh, handmade bread, pastries and cakes every day, served with house blend coffee.
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GAIL’s Oxford Summertown
Fresh, handmade bread, pastries and cakes every day, served with house blend coffee.
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Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford
Christ Church Picture Gallery is an art museum at Christ Church College that holds an internationally renowned collection of Old Master paintings and drawings, housed in a purpose-built Gallery.
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Museum of Oxford
In a city of world-class museums, the Museum of Oxford is the only museum dedicated to telling the story of Oxford and its people.